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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gary Wayne Fox.

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GARY WAYNE FOX

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

November 28, 1948 – April 30, 1967

Service record

Gary Wayne Fox, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 30, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 121 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 18E · Line 121

Position of Panel 18E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
November 28, 1948
Home of record
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 30, 1967
Age
18
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

71 names on the Wall carry the date April 30, 1967; five of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 18E, Line 121

Same unit, same day

From Pittsburgh

All 256 names from Pittsburgh →

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.